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Pro-choice activists gather outside Argentina's Congress building in the capital Buenos Aires as a polarized Senate begins a debate on legalizing abortion in a vote experts say could go either way. IMAGES
Hundreds of women stage a protest in Buenos Aires to demand legal abortion, waving the green scarves that have become the symbol of Argentina's abortion rights movement, on the International Safe Abortion Day. IMAGES
Pro-life campaigners gather and prepare to take part in the "March for Life" in Washington, DC. The "March for Life," which President Trump addressed in person earlier, is organized annually on or near the anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Roe v Wade case which legalized the procedure nationwide on January 22, 1973. IMAGES
With just days to go until Ireland’s abortion referendum on Friday May 25th, pro-life campaigners from the ‘No’ campaign are hitting the streets of Dublin to press their cause. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES
"Europe has seen frontal attacks on the right to abortion," says Daniele Gaudry, a gynaecologist and family planning activist, at a pro-abortion demonstration attended by several dozen activists on the Place de la Sorbonne in Paris, just as the Senate was preparing to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
Pro-abortion rights activists demonstrate to demand the legalisation of abortion on the Global Day of Action for Safe and Legal Abortion in Mexico City. Eight of Mexico's 32 states have decriminalised abortion, but in September 2021 the Supreme Court declared several state laws banning abortion unconstitutional, effectively allowing it throughout the country. IMAGES